Hardware

Our render farm is designed, built and managed by professionals who are passionate about CGI and VFX and understand the industry. We have 10 years experience delivering projects on-time and to affordable budgets.

Fast I/O

The technical specifications of each Render Slave Type is highlighted below.

RS1b

34

RCUs

Dual Intel Xeon
E5620 @2.40GHz

Cores: 8

Threads: 16

Memory: 48GB

RS2

54

RCUs

Dual Intel Xeon
E5-2430 @2.20GHz

Cores: 12

Threads: 24

Memory: 64GB

RS4

72

RCUs

Dual Intel Xeon
E5-2450 v2 @2.50GHz

Cores: 16

Threads: 32

Memory: 64GB

What is a Render Compute Unit (RCU)?

To make it easy to compare CPU capacity between different render slave types we have defined a Render Compute Unit. This provides a relative measure of the integer processing power of each slave type, based on real work rendering benchmarks.

What do you use to manage your render farm?

Our farm is controlled through Thinkbox’s Deadline software. We’ve been running this for many years and actively participate in their beta development process. Check them out here.

What network infrastructure do you have?

The backbone of our farm is a 10gbit/s fibre backbone for storage, management and top-of-rack switching; branching to 1gbit/s per render slave.

If you have any technical questions about our render farm's specification, compatibility or performance then please get in touch with us. We love to talk technical!